Vendhuile

Vendhuile is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France, which received the Croix de guerre for its suffering in World War I.

Vendhuile
Commune
Town hall
Location of Vendhuile
Vendhuile
Vendhuile
Coordinates: 50°00′39″N 3°12′33″E
CountryFrance
RegionHauts-de-France
DepartmentAisne
ArrondissementSaint-Quentin
CantonBohain-en-Vermandois
IntercommunalityPays du Vermandois
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Xavier Passet
Area
1
10.96 km2 (4.23 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2019)[1]
558
 • Density51/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
02776 /02420
Elevation83–143 m (272–469 ft)
(avg. 86 m or 282 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography
Cassini map of this area (around 1750)

The hamlet of La Terrière, just under 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) to the northeast, which includes around forty houses and a church, is part of Vendhuile as to 1⁄4, and the rest is in the commune of Honnecourt-sur-Escaut in Nord.

Town planning

Typology

According to the terms of Insee and its zoning published in 2020, Vendhuile is a rural municipality, as it does not belong to any urban unit {{efn|A rural municipality is a municipality that does not belong to an urban unit. The other towns are called urban.[2]  · [3]

The municipality is part of the "Catchment Area of a city" (related outskirts) of Saint-Quentin, Aisne.[lower-alpha 1] This area, which includes 120 municipalities, groups areas of between 50,000 and 20,0000 residents[4]  · [5]

History

Toponymy

Soldile appears in 1148 under the name of Vendulia in a cartulary of the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Martin then Vendulium, Soldile, Soldille, Soldile-en-l'Empire, Vendhuille-Cambrésis, Vendhuille sur Cambrésis, Vendhuille on the Cassini map around 1750, and the current Vendhuile spelling at the end of the 18th century.[6]

18th century map

The pre-Revolutionary Cassini map above shows that Vendhuile lying on the Scheldt (Escaut). A water mill symbolized by a toothed wheel was on the river.

To the north, La Terrière is a hamlet (subsidiary place without a church).

Politics and administration

The commune of Vendhuile is a member of the Intercommunalité of Pays du Vermandois, a Public Establishment for Inter-municipal Cooperation (EPCI) with its own tax system created on 31 December 1993 whose head office is at Bellicourt. The latter is also a member of other inter-municipal groupings.[7]

Administratively, it is in the District of Saint-Quentin, in the department of Aisne and the region of Hauts-de-France.[8]

See also

Notes and References

Notes
  1. The notion of "Catchment Area of a city" replaced in October 2020 the old one of urban area, to allow consistent comparisons with others countries of the European Union

References
  1. "Populations légales 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2021.
  2. insee.fr (October 21, 2020). "Basis of urban units 2020". insee.fr/. Retrieved November 5, 2020.
  3. Vianney Costemalle (October 21, 2020). "Always more inhabitants in urban units". Retrieved November 5, 2020.
  4. "Base of areas of attraction for cities 2020". www.insee.fr/. October 21, 2020. Retrieved November 5, 2020.
  5. Marie-Pierre de Bellefon, Pascal Eusebio, Jocelyn Forest, Olivier Pégaz-Blanc, Raymond Warnod (Insee) (October 21, 2020). "In France nine out of ten people live in the Catchment Area of a city". insee.fr. Retrieved November 5, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. "Dictionary of topography of France. Topographical dictionary of the department of Aisne: including old and modern place names / ed. under the auspices of the Academic Society of Laon, by M. Auguste Matton; publ. by order of the Minister of Public Instruction; and under the dir. of the Historical Works Committee". Gallica. 1871. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  7. "Pays du Vermandois as at 1 April 2020". banatic.interieur.gouv.fr. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  8. "Metadata for this commune". INSEE.
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